linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event number check of v2 PMUs

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Message-ID: <20250321111420.00003182@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:14:20 +0000
From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>
To: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@...wei.com>
CC: <will@...nel.org>, <mark.rutland@....com>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<hejunhao3@...wei.com>, <prime.zeng@...ilicon.com>, <linuxarm@...wei.com>,
	<yangyicong@...ilicon.com>, <wangyushan12@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event number check
 of v2 PMUs

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:38:43 +0800
Yicong Yang <yangyicong@...wei.com> wrote:

> From: Junhao He <hejunhao3@...wei.com>
> 
> The supported event number range of each Uncore PMUs is provided by
> each driver in hisi_pmu::check_event and out of range events
> will be rejected. A later version with expanded event number range
> needs to register the PMU with updated hisi_pmu::check_event
> even if it's the only update, which means the expanded events
> cannot be used unless the driver's updated. However the unsupported
> events won't be counted by the hardware so we can relax the event
> number check to allow the use the expanded events.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junhao He <hejunhao3@...wei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@...ilicon.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>